Re: activating pam authentication.

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Jeff Bearer wrote:
> I've got a question about a Frequently asked question, I'm trying to get
> webmin to use PAM authentication. I've followed the steps here:
> 
> http://www.webmin.com/faq.html  #22
> 
> And no matter what I try I can't get a options to make the password use
> PAM.  I've looked  in the code at acl/edit_user.cgi and here is the
> logic I see to build the password pulldown, it mentions nothing of PAM.
> 
> print ... 0 "set to"
> if($in{'user'}) print  ...1 "don't change"
> print ... 3 "unix authentication"
> if($user{'sync'}) print ... 2 "same as unix"
> if($miniserv{'extauth'}) print ... 5 "external authentication"
> print 4 "no password accepted"
> 
> Am I missing something?  If it was removed why? and is there another way
> to get this functionality?

Actually, the FAQ is a bit out of date .. you need to select 'Unix 
Authentication' instead. This tells Webmin to use the 'webmin' PAM service if it 
can, or to fall back to reading /etc/shadow directly otherwise.

  - Jamie